“If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. Let’s take that discussion all across America.”

He’d been wise to have struck that line. It is difficult not to hear it as a bugle call for a war-on-women assault over reproductive rights even if that isn’t what Huckabee says he meant.

Democrats are his target, but these comments have to make some GOP women a bit uncomfortable as well. Some parts of his address (see below) would help clarify his stance, except they bump up against a history of GOP lawmakers whose comments certainly sound like there is a GOP war on women. Now compare that with these remarks from Huckabee, which are actually moderate, in contrast.

“I think it’s time Republicans no longer accept listening to the Democrats talk about a ‘war on women.’” The fact is the Republicans don’t have a war on women, they have a war for women, to empower them to be something other than victims of their gender.”

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